Dora Puelma
Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida (Antofagasta, March 22, 1898 - Santiago, April 1, 1972) was a Chilean painter, sculptor and writer who belonged to the Generación del 13. Her work was characterized by "fidelidad a la tradición pictórica del paisaje y las técnicas de la representación que siempre defendió por sobre las tendencias abstractas que se impusieron en su época" (fidelity to the pictorial tradition of landscape painting and the techniques of representation that she always defended over the abstract tendencies that prevailed in her time), which is why her work was included within Chilean pictorial naturalism that she approached mainly through the use of oil and watercolor techniques. After entering the School of Fine Arts, she was a student of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, Juan Francisco González, and Pablo Burchard, while in the field of sculpture, she was a disciple of Virginio Arias.
Also recorded as Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida
Dora Puelma
- Born
- 1898 · Antofagasta.
- Died
- 1972 · Santiago.
- Nationality
- Chile
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · writer
- Education
- University of Chile
- Languages
- Spanish
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Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida (Antofagasta, March 22, 1898 - Santiago, April 1, 1972) was a Chilean painter, sculptor and writer who belonged to the Generación del 13. Her work was characterized by "fidelidad a la tradición pictórica del paisaje y las técnicas de la representación que siempre defendió por sobre las tendencias abstractas que se impusieron en su época" (fidelity to the pictorial tradition of landscape painting and the techniques of representation that she always defended over the abstract tendencies that prevailed in her time), which is why her work was included within Chilean pictorial naturalism that she approached mainly through the use of oil and watercolor techniques. After entering the School of Fine Arts, she was a student of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza, Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, Juan Francisco González, and Pablo Burchard, while in the field of sculpture, she was a disciple of Virginio Arias.
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1898
Dora Puelma born at Antofagasta.
1972
Dora Puelma died at Santiago.
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• Pinceladas de Europa, 1954
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Along with Elmina Moisan, Ximena Morla Lynch, Sara Malvar, Judith Alpi, and Miriam Sanfuentes, Puelma was one of the first six Chilean painters to exhibit her work at the beginning of the 20th century; particularly, Puelma did so collectively in 1914 during the Exposición de Arte Femenino de la Sociedad Artística Femenina (Women's Art Exhibition of the Women's Artistic Society) in Santiago, and later in the Official Salons of Santiago in 1916, where she also participated in 1919, 1925, 1927, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1955 and 1957. Puelma also participated in other group exhibitions, among them the one held at the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929–30, where she received the bronze medal in painting.
• Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts • The perfect confidante, Drawing on paper, 54 x • Paisaje, Oil on canvas, 50 x • Mañana de primavera, Oil on canvas, 65 x
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- 1.Romera, Antonio R. Historia de la Pintura Chilena. Editorial Andrés Bello. 1968.
- 2.Biblioteca del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Dora Puelma (1889-1972). APCh, Artistas plásticos chilenos.
- 3.Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. La mujer en el arte: homenaje, Año Internacional de la Mujer: exposición, pintura, escultura, dibujo, grabado: Secretaría Nacional de la Mujer: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, septiembre 1975. Secretaría Nacional de la Mujer. 22. 1975. 17461505.
- 4.La Secretaría. Exposición, pintura, escultura, dibujo, grabado: Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, septiembre 1975. 60. 1975. 123203345.
- 5.Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile). Pintura chilena. 86. 1977. 1001187746.
- 6.Mariátegui Oliva, Ricardo. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay: visiones. 1. 1953. 9352515.
- 7.Klimpel Alvarado, Felícitas. La Mujer Chilena: El Aporte Femenino Al Progreso de Chile, 1910-1960. Editorial Andrés Bello. 304. 1962. 1058538.
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